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All the best, Ryan Doran Shelby Moser Editors of the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Competition to design new logotype for journal of aesthetics and the philosophy of art - £300 prize. The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics (PJA) will shortly re-launch as Debates in Aesthetics. The journal is running a competition to design a new logotype for the journal. The competition is open to undergraduate or postgraduate students at art and design schools or in fine art/design departments in any country. The designer of the winning entry will receive £300, and a short feature about the winner and their work will appear in the first issue of the journal. Entries should be submitted to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Deadline for entries is the 18th of November 2016. Entries will consist of a design for a full logotype, consisting of “Debates in Aesthetics”, along with a shortened logotype, consisting of an acronym for the journal (perhaps “DiA" or “DA”). Entries to the competition will consist of two images in .jpeg, .pdf or .tiff format files. The resolution of the images must be at least 300dpi. As a journal of the philosophy of art and philosophical aesthetics, entries with aesthetic or artistic merit that nonetheless reflect the academic nature of the journal are strongly encouraged. The logotype of the journal’s current title can be found at: http://www.pjaesthetics.org/index.php/pjaesthetics <http://www.pjaesthetics.org/index.php/pjaesthetics> Examples of the logotypes used by other philosophy journals and learned societies can be found at the following addresses: British Journal of Aesthetics (http://bjaesthetics.oxfordjournals.org/ <http://bjaesthetics.oxfordjournals.org/>) British Society of Aesthetics (http://british-aesthetics.org/ <http://british-aesthetics.org/>) Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-6245) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-6245)> American Society of Aesthetics (http://aesthetics-online.org/ <http://aesthetics-online.org/>) Proceedings of Aristotelian Society (https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/ <https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/>) The Monist (http://www.themonist.com/ <http://www.themonist.com/>) Nous (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0068) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0068)> Debates in Aesthetics will be a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for high quality articles and interviews in philosophical aesthetics. Published by the British Society of Aesthetics, the journal will particularly aim to provide a valuable forum for discussing influential philosophical arguments and ideas, and create continuity between postgraduate and professional aestheticians. Full rules of entry can be found below: RULES Read the Rules carefully before submitting your entry, to ensure you understand and accept them. Submitting an entry in the competition constitutes acceptance of the Rules. PROMOTER The competition promoter is the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics. ELIGIBILITY To be eligible to enter the competition, you must be enrolled on an undergraduate or graduate course at an art or design school or in an art or design department. The journal reserves the right to verify eligibility. HOW TO ENTER Entries to the competition must be submitted by email to: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Entrants should submit two images in .jpeg, .pdf or .tiff files. All entries must be accompanied by a .pdf containing a scanned letter, signed by the entrant, stating details of the course on which he or she is enrolled, together with the entrant’s contact details. The closing date is 18 November 2016. Entries which do not meet the entry requirements and entries which are received after the closing date will not be considered. DATA Personal data will only be retained and used by the Journal for the purposes of this competition. Personal data will not be passed on to any other parties without the prior express consent of the data subject. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS The image must be an original logotype that does not contain, incorporate or otherwise use any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or violates a third party’s intellectual property rights, including but not limited to the law of copyright or trade marks. It must not be subject to any third party rights or agreement which may require the journal to seek permission from or pay any sum of money to any person or entity as a result of its use. By submitting an entry in the competition, each entrant represents and warrants that his or her images meet these criteria. JUDGING Each entry will be judged by a panel of judges consisting of the Editors of the journal, along with the members of the journal’s editorial board. Decisions and rulings of the judges are final and binding. The judges reserve the right not to award the prize if no entry is submitted which they judge worthy of the prize. The judges’ decisions will be final and no correspondence will be entered into in relation to their decisions or the competition. PRIZES The winning design will be used on the journal’s website and the cover of each new issue of the journal together with other communication and promotional materials. The winner will be notified by email in December 2016. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS By entering the competition, the winning entrant grants to the journal exclusive ownership of all intellectual property rights in the images submitted (including moral rights), including any necessary and relevant permissions relating to the reproduction of their entry in any media, as part of the publication and promotion of the journal (on a royalty-free, exclusive, perpetual, worldwide basis). WARRANTY Each entrant warrants that their entries are their own original work and, as such, they are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of their images and that they have the right to grant all required licenses and transfer ownership of the images. Ryan Paul Doran PhD student Department of Philosophy University of Sheffield Centre for Philosophical Psychology University of Antwerp Website: http://sheffield.academia.edu/RyanDoran/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanpauldoran Founder and Chair of iCog - an interdisciplinary network for postgraduates and early-career researchers working in cognitive science. http://www.i-cog.com Editor of Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics - http://www.pjaesthetics.org/
